Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, on Thursday called slain terrorist, Al-Qaeda chief and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a “shaheed” (martyr) and thereby stoked a controversy.

He made this statement while addressing the National Assembly and the video cliping of the same has now gone viral.

Lashing out at the United State for killing Laden in Abbottabad, the Pak PM said: “Shaheed kad diya.”

Khan went on to say that though Pakistan supported America in ‘war on terror’, it had to face embarrassment after they called Pakistan a safe haven for terrorists.

“Our ally is secretly coming into our country and killing a terrorist and we don’t even have an idea,” he said in a video, which was posted by journalist Naila Inayat on Twitter.

Osama bin Laden was killed in a military operation by US Navy Seals in 2011 at the garrison town Abbottabad.